INVESTOR CENTER Management

Douglas G. Bailey
Chairman, and President and Chief Executive Officer - Interim
Douglas G. Bailey has been a director of Fuel Tech since April 1998. He served as Deputy Chairman from 2002 through 2009, and was appointed Chairman in January 2010. He became an employee of Fuel Tech in January 2004. Mr. Bailey, who is the son of Ralph E. Bailey, has been the President of American Bailey Corporation (ABC), a privately owned business acquisition and development company, since 1984 and its Chief Executive Officer since 1996. A graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mr. Bailey, holds a B.S., M.S. and an Engineer’s degree, all in Mechanical Engineering. In 1978, Mr. Bailey received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Ralph E. Bailey
Chairman Emeritus
Ralph E. Bailey is the retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Conoco, Inc. and retired Vice Chairman of the Board of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (DuPont). Mr. Bailey is currently Chairman of American Bailey Corporation, a privately owned investment company, and Chairman Emeritus of Fuel Tech.

His directorships include Fuel Tech, Great Northern Properties Management Corporation, and the Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan. Past directorships include J.P. Morgan, General Signal Corporation, IC Industries, Abex Corporation, DuPont, The Williams Companies, Rowan Companies, Inc., Clean Diesel Technologies, Inc., and the National Forest Foundation. He was former Chairman of the National Petroleum Council and the American Mining Congress.

Robert E. Puissant
Executive Vice President, Marketing and Sales
Mr. Puissant joined Fuel Tech in August 2009 as Executive Vice President, Marketing and Sales. Prior to joining Fuel Tech, he served as an Operating Executive and Executive Vice President, Strategy and Business Development for School Specialty, Inc., a $1 billion education company serving the PreK - 12 market. Previous to that, Mr. Puissant was employed by Wisconsin Energy Corporation, where he held the positions of Senior Vice President, Customer Analysis and Planning and Senior Vice President, Marketing and Strategic Planning. In related energy industry involvement, he held Advisory Board of Director roles with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition (NGVC). Mr. Puissant also held a number of positions during a 20-year span at Novell, Inc., Inacom Corporation and Ameritech Corporation. Mr. Puissant earned a B.S. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin and an M.B.A. from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management - Northwestern University, with emphasis in Marketing, Sales Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness.

Vincent M. Albanese
Senior Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
Mr. Albanese assumed the position of Senior Vice President, Regulatory Affairs in February 2007. In this capacity, Mr. Albanese represents Fuel Tech for liaison with federal, state and regional environmental agencies. Previously, Mr. Albanese was Senior Vice President, Regulatory Affairs and Advanced Technology since 2006, Senior Vice President, Air Pollution Control since 2000, Vice President, Air Pollution Control since 1998, and Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Nalco Fuel Tech since 1990.

Mr. Albanese was a member of EPA's Acid Rain Advisory Committee, and currently serves as a Managing Director and Vice President of the Institute of Clean Air Companies; he served as chairman of its NOx Division for the past 11 years. He is a member of the Council of Industrial Boiler Owners, serving on its Environmental Committee. Mr. Albanese received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from Manhattan College in 1970 and his M.S. in Physical Chemistry from Villanova in 1973.

Stephen P. Brady
Senior Vice President, Fuel Chem Sales
Mr. Brady became Senior Vice President, Fuel Chem Sales on January 1, 2009. He joined Fuel Tech in 1998 as Vice President, Fuel Chem. He was promoted to Senior Vice President, Fuel Chem in 2002 and to Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing in April 2006. Mr. Brady was raised in Cleveland, Ohio and attended Miami University, where he graduated with an engineering degree in 1978. He also attended the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration. Mr. Brady spent two years with Johnson & Johnson and 18 years with Nalco Chemical Company in a variety of sales and management positions, primarily focused on the electric utility, steel, paper and refining industries. Among his industry experiences were managing growth in water treatment applications and the early introduction of fuel treatment technologies.

William E. Cummings, Jr.
Senior Vice President, Air Pollution Control Sales
Mr. Cummings became Senior Vice President, Air Pollution Control Sales on January 1, 2009. Previously, he had been Vice President, Sales since April 2006; Vice President, Air Pollution Control Sales since May 2000; Director, Utility Sales since April 1998; and Director, Eastern Region since 1994. Mr. Cummings has 29 years of experience in the Air Pollution field. He has held positions as National Sales Manager and Regional Sales Manager with the world's leading Flue Gas Conditioning Company, Engineering Specialist for a leading Architect/Engineering firm, Field Engineer and Applications Engineer for a leading Electrostatic Precipitator Supplier, and Field Technician and Laboratory Technician for a regional Emissions Testing Company. He has sold and or participated in over 400 Air Pollution control projects to date in the United States and Canada. Mr. Cummings holds an AS in Environmental Sciences and has completed additional skills training at numerous venues, including Harvard Law School and the University of Michigan.

Timothy J. Eibes
Senior Vice President, Project Execution
Mr. Eibes joined Fuel Tech in August 2006 as Vice President, Project Execution. In March 2010 he was promoted to his current position of Senior Vice President. In this role he directs the engineering, procurement, project management and construction activities for Fuel Tech. Mr. Eibes has over 30 years of related experience that includes nearly 20 years with Alliant Energy Inc. While at Alliant he held various positions, including Director of Natural Gas Operations, General Manager and VP- Asset Management. His professional experience also includes engineering and project management positions at Deere & Company and Johnson Controls Inc. Mr. Eibes received a Bachelor of Technology (Construction) and a Masters of Arts (Industrial Management) from the University of Northern Iowa.

M. Linda Lin
Senior Vice President, China/Pacific Rim
Dr. Lin was promoted to Vice President in 2006 and to Senior Vice President, China/Pacific Rim in 2008. She has been with Fuel Tech since the inception of Nalco Fuel Tech in 1990 where she held a dual-duty position of Marketing Manager for Asia and Research Manager. Prior to that, Dr. Lin was at Nalco Company for 28 years.

Born in Nanjing, China, Dr. Lin grew up in Taiwan where she graduated with a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Taiwan University. She continued graduate studies and earned a Ph.D. degree in Catalysis from Texas A&M University.

With over two dozen Fuel Tech air pollution control (APC) systems sold and operated in Taiwan and the Republic of Korea, Dr. Lin has been a successful marketer of Fuel Tech’s APC products in Asia. These include the first commercial NOxOUT^® SNCR systems for cement kilns and NOxOUT-SCR^® systems for diesel engines. She has been instrumental in setting up the region’s sales infrastructure as well as building relationships with government and industrial agencies, engineering firms and a large customer base. She is credited with placing Fuel Tech in an enviable leading position in China’s NOx emissions reduction and energy savings TIFI^® markets. Dr. Lin’s talents also include the development of many significant chemical products such as 8263/8263+, used in TIFI^® applications. She is the inventor or co-inventor of over 20 U.S. patents and has authored or co-authored approximately 100 publications in water and air pollution control. She was an Adjunct Professor in the MBA curriculum at the Illinois Institute of Technology’s (IIT) Stewart Business School in Chicago.

Albert G. Grigonis
Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Mr. Grigonis joined Fuel Tech in 2003, having held a succession of legal positions until his election as Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary in December 2008. Previously, Mr. Grigonis was Legal Director for the 3Com Corporation, a high technology computer electronics firm, and served over 16 years in a variety of legal roles as an attorney for Motorola, Inc., a high technology electronics firm. Mr. Grigonis received his law degree from Northern Illinois University College of Law.

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